I just bought a project Mac Pro. It's a Mac Pro Dual Xeon 3ghz, but it's missing the video card, ram, hard drive, and super drive. It was water damaged on the lower inch or two of the mother board and lower memory board. The original owner said that Apple was able to get it to boot, but it had a few issues in the hardware test. Now I've dealt with electronics like this getting wet and usually with a good disassembly and through cleaning, computers can be revived. I bought it for parts, but I have a feeling with a bit of work I'll bring it back to life. It's a December 2006 system and I only paid $250 for the entire chassis including the 3ghz processors which are still good and could sell for much more than $250. I bought a new Pioneer DVD-RW, 8gb Memory, and I have a 250gb WD SATA-II drive to install. My last purchase will be an X1900XT 512mb Video Card that I'll reflash using the available ROM on the 'net to make it work with the Mac Pro. I'd pay the $367 for the OEM X1900XT with my EPP discount, but it's back ordered for over a month and I can't wait that long cause I'm just too darn curious.
Anyhow, since I needed memory I was set to buy a couple 2gb kits of Crucial from Newegg. I'm going to buy a Mac Pro so all of these parts are important anyhow, but I'd love to have a sub $1,000 Mac Pro 3ghz! In the process of buying parts I stumbled onto a VERY nice deal for 1gb sticks of Techworks Mac Pro memory. They are FB-DIMMS with heatsinks and state they are 100% certified. They are $39.99 per stick, so I got 8gb for $320 versus 4gb of Crucial for $310. I didn't see this deal mentioned and since a lot of people feel that $150 for 2gb is a good deal, I figured $80 for 2gb of Apple certified FB-DIMM was even better. It's $80 on Techworks website, so Newegg has it for half that price. Sorry if this is old news.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820998031
Anyhow, since I needed memory I was set to buy a couple 2gb kits of Crucial from Newegg. I'm going to buy a Mac Pro so all of these parts are important anyhow, but I'd love to have a sub $1,000 Mac Pro 3ghz! In the process of buying parts I stumbled onto a VERY nice deal for 1gb sticks of Techworks Mac Pro memory. They are FB-DIMMS with heatsinks and state they are 100% certified. They are $39.99 per stick, so I got 8gb for $320 versus 4gb of Crucial for $310. I didn't see this deal mentioned and since a lot of people feel that $150 for 2gb is a good deal, I figured $80 for 2gb of Apple certified FB-DIMM was even better. It's $80 on Techworks website, so Newegg has it for half that price. Sorry if this is old news.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820998031